Ellen Ratner has a whiny column attacking the Christian character of the President suggesting he wasn’t acting like Christ in handling Cindy Sheehan. She writes in part:
I am beginning to think that the president is listening to his advisers more than his Christ-like heart. The advisers would tell him not to give any protester the satisfaction of a meeting. They would argue that he met with Ms. Sheehan once before and that was more than he had to do. I doubt Christ would have rejected Ms. Sheehan because he had already met with her and she seemed fine then. Perhaps Christ would have intuitively known that when people experience a great loss, they may go through many stages of grief to include shock, denial and anger before they reach resolution. Ms. Sheehan met the president about two months after Casey was killed. She was in shock.
The left’s conception of Christ is the very reason most of the people who write this type of tripe aren’t Christians. Jesus to them is the sensitive hippy who rides into town and comes to fix all their emotional hang-ups.
Jesus never wasted a whole lot of time on the insincere (which I think Mrs. Sheehan is at this point). Jesus didn’t come to be your psychologist, to let you go your own way and do whatever, preaching the gospel of do your own thing. He came with his first message being a continuation of what John the Baptist said, “Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17)
Christ used divisive rhetoric. He asked the Scribes (educated people) and Pharisees (ultra-religious people),”Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell?”
Yes, Jesus saved the woman caught in adultery from being stoned but he also said, “Go and sin no more.”
When the left talks of Jesus, they talk of this flat lifeless character who came preaching the gospel of syrup and candy. No wonder few of them believe, he’s not real to them.
Jesus, on Earth would shock and offend both right and left. That what He did when He was here. If he was so syruppy as the left alleges, no one would have paid attention to him, let alone crucify him.
